The league has begun to crack down on flopping this season. Players who are caught in the act will first receive a warning, before then receiving fines escalating in value for each subsequent violation.

Sebastian Telfair may find himself on the league’s radar, after this play that occurred during the Knicks’ win over the Suns on Sunday afternoon.

Pablo Prigioni is doing an excellent job defensively here, denying Telfair the ball on the perimeter. He stays with Telfair closely as the Suns guard tries to cut through the paint, and Telfair inadvertently catches him with a shot to the face.

Immediately after the contact, however, is when Telfair flails about as if he was the one who just got cracked.

It’s funny to watch in slow motion, and if we’re interested in giving Bassy the benefit of the doubt, he may have been trying to exaggerate the contact from Prigioni before the shot to the face, to try to let the referees know he didn’t appreciate the ball-denial defense.

Whatever Telfair’s motives, a flop is a flop. We’ll see if the league office feels it’s egregious enough to add Telfair to the list of players warned for doing so this season.